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Title: ChatRoulette
Post by: cutout on February 06, 2010, 09:05:48 PM
I have not tried this service, but I am pretty curious/horrified at the thought of it -

http://nymag.com/news/media/63663/

I have a colleague in Albania who is like 20 years old. I mentioned ChatRoulette to him and he said, "My friend used it a couple of times. He said the things he often saw were unspeakable." It does not bode well that a guy in a place full of war refugees and corruption considered the images he saw 'unspeakable'. Anyone dared to try it out?
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: DoodleJump! on February 06, 2010, 09:46:47 PM
Reading this article made me decide that I should probably not try it out. I'm a sensitive person.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: buffcoat on February 06, 2010, 09:50:53 PM
This doesn't seem like my kind of thing.  Lots of noise to signal.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: KickTheBobo on February 06, 2010, 11:19:24 PM
strangers are scary as it is.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: nec13 on February 06, 2010, 11:50:04 PM
This sounds like a veritable den of iniquity. Much like the rest of the internet.

I think I'll pass.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Dan in Chicago on February 07, 2010, 02:59:30 AM
I feel like someone dedicated to spending time on it would end up with some pretty crazy quotes or ideas. That said it's probably not worth that trouble.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: dave from knoxville on February 07, 2010, 02:07:59 PM
This sounds like a veritable den of iniquity. Much like the rest of the internet.




I'm on the case!
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: erechoveraker on February 07, 2010, 10:33:40 PM
Me and a bunch of friends on another board tried it out one night whatever week it launched a few months back. With supposedly something like 4-5k people online at the time, I ran into my friends at least twice each.

Unspeakable seems a bit over the top. I mean, it was chaos for sure. Porn on loop, guys exposing themselves and other things along that line, but I mean, it was pretty much what I expected. I think 90% of the people were on it for the show, and the rest were 4channers just trying to get a laugh. Oh yeah, and the penises.

One group of teenage girls saw me and typed "Dad?", I nearly cried and never went back.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Christina on February 07, 2010, 10:47:43 PM
Oh yeah, and the penises.


I think I've found my new .sig!!!
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: crumbum on February 08, 2010, 08:31:02 AM
I'm definitely too shy to do this. It's one thing to check out the freaks but soon enough someone will want to have a real conversation and I will panic. I can feel the flop sweat starting already.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Dan B on February 08, 2010, 04:40:45 PM
This site is insane. I discovered it about a month ago when someone posted it on Facebook. There are a shit load of the weirdest weirdos, but also plenty of people willing to have actually good conversations. One of the most notable good conversations was with this Brazilian girl that my friends and I talked with for about TWO hours. The site got huge recently and now it's mostly evolved into two groups of drunk college students yelling at each other, which is fun in its own way.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on February 08, 2010, 09:20:37 PM
The "LICK YOU ELBOW" (sic) line in the article sure made me laugh.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: samir on February 14, 2010, 08:33:56 AM
It didn't take long but the English broadsheets are covering the phenomena.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/14/chatroulette-sex-voyeurs-website
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Sarah on February 14, 2010, 09:21:14 AM
Every time I see "ChatRoulette" I pronounce it "chah-roulette" in my head and think maybe it's some kind of feline gambling site.  Possibly with revolvers.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Andy on February 14, 2010, 09:56:03 AM
that site gives me the creeps. 
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Christina on February 14, 2010, 10:28:42 AM
Every time I see "ChatRoulette" I pronounce it "chah-roulette" in my head and think maybe it's some kind of feline gambling site.  Possibly with revolvers.

I would go to this site. I have not yet gone to the other. I'm holding out for as long as I possibly can. This and Avatar.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Dan in Chicago on February 14, 2010, 05:31:50 PM
Every time I see "ChatRoulette" I pronounce it "chah-roulette" in my head and think maybe it's some kind of feline gambling site.  Possibly with revolvers.

I would go to this site. I have not yet gone to the other. I'm holding out for as long as I possibly can. This and Avatar.


Amen to that. Don't give in to the pressure.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: DoodleJump! on February 14, 2010, 11:13:57 PM
No! GIVE IN TO THE PRESSURE! Always pick the path that'll give you the best story to tell later on.*











*this is my best friend's advice that I never follow.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: KickTheBobo on February 14, 2010, 11:16:18 PM
checked it out for about 5 minutes. pretty much just dudes, and masturbating dudes.

Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: erechoveraker on February 15, 2010, 12:35:47 AM
checked it out for about 5 minutes. pretty much just dudes, and masturbating dudes.



So, just dudes?
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: KickTheBobo on February 15, 2010, 08:07:41 AM
checked it out for about 5 minutes. pretty much just dudes, and masturbating dudes.



So, just dudes?

lots of lonely dudes.

mostly, dudes.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: buffcoat on February 15, 2010, 09:35:36 AM
checked it out for about 5 minutes. pretty much just dudes, and masturbating dudes.



So, just dudes?

lots of lonely dudes.

mostly, dudes.


After careful consideration, I'm passing on this.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: chuck from cedar rapids on February 15, 2010, 01:19:14 PM
Chatroulette is wild. The other night I had an interesting chat with a guy wearing a wolf mask. Beware - you will see a lot of weenis. The guy performing oral sex on his girlfriend took the cake though.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Martin on February 15, 2010, 04:33:55 PM
jpg?
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Chad from Oregon on February 15, 2010, 05:24:46 PM
Yikes. I ended up with four creepy dudes in their mid-20s, a pair of feet, and who I can only assume was the Smashing Pumpkins girl.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Chad from Oregon on February 15, 2010, 05:42:22 PM
And the next five: a scary dude in glasses, a penis, the scary dude from Sum 41, a guitar, and a sign reading: "SHOW ME YOUR TITS. I KNOW NO ENGLISH (Italy)"
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Chris L on February 15, 2010, 05:46:25 PM
(http://s.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/2/2/12/enhanced-buzz-14156-1265131149-7.jpg)
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: SJK on February 15, 2010, 06:11:12 PM
That is very funny, made my day...is that you in the bottom window Chris L? Expression is perfect.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Chris L on February 15, 2010, 06:18:26 PM
is that you in the bottom window Chris L?

Close.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: buffcoat on February 15, 2010, 10:32:06 PM
"Report inappropriate video," huh?
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Joe Rogaine on February 16, 2010, 02:21:38 AM
Whats the difference in this and Paltalk which has been around for ages?
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Christina on February 16, 2010, 05:58:27 AM
"Report inappropriate video," huh?

Yeah, it's so relative. Where's the "Report video that makes me die a little, deep inside" button?

Also, maybe that guy would find acceptance if he were a little friendlier himself. You catch more flies with honey, puddy tat!
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Joe Rogaine on February 16, 2010, 06:01:42 AM
Paltalk was just a better name it even had the masturbating guys.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on February 16, 2010, 11:38:25 AM
is that you in the bottom window Chris L?

Close.

So I guess you're the cat.  Lookin' good!
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Sarah on February 16, 2010, 12:24:44 PM
(http://s.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/2/2/12/enhanced-buzz-14156-1265131149-7.jpg)

So it is a cat site.  Where's the gambling paraphernalia/gun?
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Joe Rogaine on February 16, 2010, 06:18:13 PM
I think thats a Leopard.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Sarah on February 17, 2010, 09:01:25 AM
Right.  Leopards and cats have nothing in common.  How could I have been so stupid?
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Joe Rogaine on February 17, 2010, 06:13:02 PM
Right.  Leopards and cats have nothing in common.  How could I have been so stupid?


I know learn your species geez.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Nigel on February 18, 2010, 11:49:43 PM
(http://randomfunnypicture.com/wp2/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/random-webcam-chat-so-what-dog.png)
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: emma on February 19, 2010, 05:52:28 PM
After a few beers last night, my friends and I decided it would be a really good idea to try this. The internet lead me to believe there was going to be more penis! There was really not that much penis, you guys.

Lots of people doing bong hits, though. Also, three separate people freaked out when we said we were in Canada. They all kept asking if we drank milk from a bag as opposed to a carton. Is that a thing? Are people suddenly upset about bagged milk? Or were those three people all in the same house and messing with us?
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Christina on February 19, 2010, 07:00:57 PM

Lots of people doing bong hits, though. Also, three separate people freaked out when we said we were in Canada. They all kept asking if we drank milk from a bag as opposed to a carton. Is that a thing? Are people suddenly upset about bagged milk? Or were those three people all in the same house and messing with us?

I thought the big hilarious thing to ask Canadians about was why they had homo milk.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: erechoveraker on February 19, 2010, 08:06:46 PM
Maybe the penises got bored. I am telling you, I saw a lot of penises the 30 or so minutes I was on. A LOT. Like, a dozen.

Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Dan in Chicago on February 21, 2010, 03:49:54 PM
My friends and I also tried it last night. And after a good half an hour of distrusting it I realized, it kinda has infinite comedic potential. No matter what happens next it's almost always funny.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Christina on February 21, 2010, 04:09:29 PM
Maybe the penises got bored. I am telling you, I saw a lot of penises the 30 or so minutes I was on. A LOT. Like, a dozen.



We went to ChatRoulette last night, a couple of FOTs and me, and we can report the same thing ... a dozen sets of male reproductive organs.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: erechoveraker on February 21, 2010, 10:06:10 PM
YES!
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Christina on February 21, 2010, 11:02:53 PM
YES!

Every time we saw one, we shrieked like 13 year old girls do when the Jonas Brothers hit the stage.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: erechoveraker on February 21, 2010, 11:04:42 PM
I'm pretty sure that's the only reaction that's warranted for that situation, so well done!
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Christina on February 21, 2010, 11:06:56 PM
I'm pretty sure that's the only reaction that's warranted for that situation, so well done!

We stopped on one naked stroking guy, and I was lit up enough to try my transsexual voice to see if I could make a boner wilt, and after a few minutes of KILLER material, the naked dude typed "Espanol?"

I was the one who was wilted.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Dan in Chicago on February 22, 2010, 04:46:06 AM
I'm pretty sure that's the only reaction that's warranted for that situation, so well done!

I wish it was that simple. I've become so intrigued by this site that I have desensitized myself to seeing strangers masturbating. This is like clockwork orange with penises.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Christina on February 22, 2010, 07:33:38 AM
This is like clockwork orange with penises.

That's redundant!

Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Martin on February 22, 2010, 08:14:43 AM
More like Cockwork Orange

thankyou
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: buffcoat on February 22, 2010, 09:14:30 AM
More like Cockwork Orange

thankyouverymuch


Americanized!
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Christina on February 22, 2010, 07:52:45 PM
More like Cockwork Orange

thankyouverymuch


Americanized!

When I was on Chatroulette, I said "have a nice day" every time I disconnected from someone.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on February 22, 2010, 10:27:05 PM
By the way, anyone catch the cat guy in the Sunday NYT?
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: ScottP on February 23, 2010, 07:02:41 PM
Chat Roulette: The Movie!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUI0gUTD1NM[/youtube]
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Barry Egan on March 22, 2010, 01:44:26 AM
Ben Folds, I've ignored you for too long.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfamTmY5REw[/youtube]
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Big Plastic Head on March 22, 2010, 12:21:11 PM
Ben Folds, I've ignored you for too long.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfamTmY5REw[/youtube]

I saw Ben Folds about seven years ago and, regardless of what you think of his music, he is a fantastic live act. His improvisations and crowd work is tops. And there was a LOT of humor. I wouldn't hesitate going again. The chatroulette video is a great example.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Gilly on March 22, 2010, 04:16:26 PM
Ben Folds, I've ignored you for too long.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfamTmY5REw[/youtube]

I saw Ben Folds about seven years ago and, regardless of what you think of his music, he is a fantastic live act. His improvisations and crowd work is tops. And there was a LOT of humor. I wouldn't hesitate going again. The chatroulette video is a great example.

Check out the guy he's impersonating as well. Everyone thought that Merton was Ben Folds so Ben Folds ran with it. It's great that even in an environment where you're most likely going to see the worst, sometimes the best happens!
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Pidgeon on March 22, 2010, 04:17:52 PM
I liked his cover of a Postal Service song which I can't remember at the moment.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: DoodleJump! on March 22, 2010, 06:35:51 PM
I liked his cover of a Postal Service song which I can't remember at the moment.
I'm thinking Such Great Heights but then I'm thinking not because I'm thinking something about Iron and Wine?
Also, I saw Folds live two years ago and he is really a ton of fun. I do enjoy his music from time to time. Plus, he had really cool tshirts at the merch table, and that's all that matters, right?

I loved the chatroulette thing.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on March 22, 2010, 06:50:23 PM
i've always liked ben folds, no shame here.

and because i'm an unabashed internet creep, i hate chatroulette but i love other people's experiences on it. 
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Kim Kelly on March 23, 2010, 12:35:49 AM
I like going on Chatroulette and pointing and laughing at dudes' penises. It's usually the opposite of the reaction they're looking for.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: fonpr on March 23, 2010, 02:10:14 PM
i'm an unabashed internet creep, i hate chatroulette but i love laughing at dudes' penises.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Pat K on March 24, 2010, 01:45:00 PM
Logged onto this for the first time at a St Patricks Day party last week and found all the hype to be true: about a 2-1 penis ratio.  Strangely enough, the funniest thing was not the masturbating strangers, but the guy who we caught picking his nose.  We yelled at him to eat it, and he did.

Did I mention I'd had a few drinks?
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: dave from knoxville on March 27, 2010, 01:37:23 PM
i've always liked ben folds, no shame here.

and because i'm an unabashed internet creep, i hate chatroulette but i love other people's experiences on it. 

Ben Folds is incredible. I am on the TivoTrain in this, and in most regards.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: DoodleJump! on March 27, 2010, 01:39:37 PM
My friend tried to get us to do chatroulette last night and when I complained that I didn't feel like seeing a ton of penises right then she replied that she'd "only seen 5 or 6" last time she was on. No thanku.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Martin on March 27, 2010, 02:48:15 PM
Look, I'm in no rush to try ChatRoulette, but please, enough with the penis hatin'.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Sarah on March 27, 2010, 03:00:33 PM
There, there.  The penis is an organ of great charm: whether soft and cuddly or turgid and questing, there is something endearingly ridiculous about it.

Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Martin on March 27, 2010, 03:10:11 PM
Granted.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Christina on March 27, 2010, 03:53:18 PM
There, there.  The penis is an organ of great charm: whether soft and cuddly or turgid and questing, there is something endearingly ridiculous about it.



I'm a fan!
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Sarah on March 27, 2010, 03:59:41 PM
How not?
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: buffcoat on March 27, 2010, 11:34:56 PM
I had the awful thought in the locker room at the pool that in just a few decades I'm going to have to see a naked old man EVERY DAY.
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Christina on March 27, 2010, 11:40:58 PM
I had the awful thought in the locker room at the pool that in just a few decades I'm going to have to see a naked old man EVERY DAY.


Yeah, yourself! In the mirror!

Oh, and by the way?

(http://media.fukung.net/images/11775/3f32ad21474716833aedbe6f5751d986.gif)

Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: DoodleJump! on March 28, 2010, 12:04:03 AM
I had the awful thought in the locker room at the pool that in just a few decades I'm going to have to see a naked old man EVERY DAY.


Yeah, yourself! In the mirror!

Oh, and by the way?

(http://media.fukung.net/images/11775/3f32ad21474716833aedbe6f5751d986.gif)
faintin' goats!


did I miss something?


Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: buffcoat on March 28, 2010, 12:57:51 AM
I had the awful thought in the locker room at the pool that in just a few decades I'm going to have to see a naked old man EVERY DAY.


Yeah, yourself! In the mirror!



Man, can't put anything past you!
Title: Re: ChatRoulette
Post by: Sarah on March 28, 2010, 09:10:05 AM
Cheer up, buff.  You'd be surprised how easy it is not to catch sight of yourself in the mirror if you don't want to.